Reading Mid-Terms

I have discovered if you ever want to make a teacher's life hell - write well over the maximum amount of pages given.  Students had to turn in a 3-5 page midterm reflecting back on the class.  Well I've had one 17 page paper, a 16 pager, several 10-12 pages, and several more 7 -10 pagers.  Since I have no ownership of the assignments, I wasn't the one who came up with the page limitation.  I have taken off points becuase of the great lengths of some of the papers but this is taking me forever to finish.